Hot cap setter



April 2, 1935. H R SAGE 1,996,525

HOT CAP SETTER Filed June 5, 1934 Patented Apr. 2, 1935 HOT CAP SETTER HerbertR. Sage, Los Angeles, Cal if. I 1' Application .l'une 5, 1934, Serial No. 729,046

r 5 Claims.

This invention relates to devices for setting paper plant protectors, generally known as hot caps, and more particularly to devices for handling and setting that particular type of plant protector covered in my U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,861,981, issued June 7, 1932, on a Hot cap.

Referring hereinafter to that particular type of plant protector as my hot cap, it is to be noted that an object of my invention is to provide a hot cap setter by which my hot cap may be easily and quickly separated from a column of such hot caps, placed in position for setting, and then left anchored in place by dirt covering the base flange of the cap.

It is a further object to provide a hot cap setter which can be operated with one hand to take up a hot cap and place this in position.

Another object of the invention is to provide 7 a hot cap setter which is inexpensive to make and easy to operate.

The manner of accomplishing the foregoing objects as well as further objects and advantages will be made manifest in the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. l is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the cap setter of my invention being lowered over a stack of my hot caps in preparation for lifting a single hot cap from the stack.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of this setter after a single hot cap has been lifted from the stack as shown in Fig. l by the use of a single hand and also illustrates the manner in which this hot cap is lowered over a plant incidental to setting the hot cap in place in the ground.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the step of covering up the flange of the hot cap of my invention from the position on the ground by downward pressure on the hot cap setter.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary, vertical, sectional view indicating the manner in which a finger is ex tended through the ventilation hole in the hot cap at the upper end thereof so as to lift the hot cap with the setter as shown in Fig. 2.

Referring specifically to the drawing, Fig. 1 diagrammatically illustrates a stack of my hot caps 18, for a more complete disclosure of which reference is had to my U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,861,981, issued June '7, 1932. This hot cap includes a frusto-conical body H formed of paper and almost completely conical in form excepting for its upper end which is slightly truncated to provide a ventilation hole I2 as shown in Fig. 1. The lower edge of the hot cap I0 is provided with a flange 13 comprising a series of tabs extending horizontally from thehot cap. The-manner of I packing the hot caps illfori'transportationis to nest these in stacks as s own; in Fig.1.

The hot cap setter of my invention indicated by. the numeral M preferably comprises a sheet metal body 15 which is shapedto conforrnto the exterior-surface of thebody ll'of thehot cap it as clearly shown in the drawing. The sheet metal body i5 is reinforced at its lower edge by a metal band It. At its upper end the sheet metal body i5 has an outward extending flange ll terminating in an annular bead !8 which constitutes a handle for lifting the setter It. The space inside of the bead I8 is open so that a finger of the hand which grips the bead l8 may be extended downwardly through this opening and the hole 12 in the hot cap It! to grip the body ll of the hot cap against the body 15 of the setter so as to lift the hot cap with the setter and transport this to wherever it is desired to set the cap in the ground.

After the setter It and a hot cap it have been transported, as shown in Fig. 2, and set down to position the hot cap properly for setting, the other hand is brought into play and dirt is swept into place over the flange l3 as shown in Fig. 3. After this is accomplished the grip upon the hot cap, as shown in Fig. 4, is relaxed and the setter M is lifted away from the hot cap leaving the latter installed in proper position in the ground.

While I have shown and described only a single embodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that though my invention has particular utility with the particular form of hot caps shown any features thereof which are shown by the prior art to be broadly new may be embodied in various modifications of the invention without departing from the spirit of the invention or scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is: 1. As an article of manufacture, a setter for hot caps, each of said hot caps having aventilation hole at the peak thereof, said setter including a body of rigid sheet material shaped to conform to the exterior of said hot cap and having an opening therein coinciding with said ventilation hole and thereby permitting said hot cap to be picked up while disposed within the setter and by the same hand with which the setter is lifted. 2. As an article of manufacture, a setter for hot caps, each of said hot caps having a ventilation hole at the peak thereof, said setter includ ing a body of rigid sheet material shaped to conform to the exterior of said hot cap and having an opening therein coinciding with said ventilation hole and thereby permitting said hot cap to be picked up while disposed within the setter and by the same hand with which. the setter is lifted; and handle means provided on said body in a position to be gripped by said hand while one of the fingers thereof extends through said hole to pick up said hot cap.

3. As an article of manufacture, a setter for hot caps, each of said hot caps having a ventilation hole at the peak thereof, said setter includ ing a body of rigid sheet material shaped to conform to the exterior of said hot cap and having an opening therein coinciding with said ventilation hole and thereby permitting said hot cap to be picked up while disposed within the setter and. by the same hand with which the setter is lifted; and handle means provided on said body in a position to be gripped by said hand while one of the fingers thereof extends through said hole to pick up said hot cap, said handle means comprising an outwardly projecting flange disposed about said opening.

4. As an article ofmanufacture, a setter for hot caps, each of which is almost. completely conical in form but has the upper extremity thereof truncated to form a ventilating hole, said setter including abody of rigid sheet material shaped to conform to the exterior of said hot cap and having an opening therein coinciding with said ventilation hole, and handle means provided on said body adjacent said opening whereby said handle means may be gripped in a hand to lift said setter and a finger of said hand may be simultaneously extended through said opening in said hole to pinch said hot cap between said finger and said body to lift said hot cap with said setter, said handle means comprising an annular flange extending outwardly from said body around said opening.

5. As an article of manufacture, a setter for hot caps, each of said hot caps having a peak,

said setter including a body of rigid sheet material shaped to substantially conform to the exterior of said hot cap, said body being adapted to be may be extended through said opening to engage the peak of said hot cap to grip the latter against the setter and lift the hot cap with the same hand which is used to lift the setter.

HERBERT R. SAGE. 

